aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2006-12-06 23:38:11 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 11:39:38 -0500
commitb4c6c34a530b4d1c626f4ac0a884e0a9b849378c (patch)
tree5705a4621b6668bced1969396465800256d76c76 /Documentation/SubmittingPatches
parentc15bb296403f1ce448384d58742e0dc04f49d664 (diff)
[PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernel
When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some processes might be preempted on the buffer. The freeze_processes() and thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer. There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag. If those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing. However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time. So, this patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot. It also introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency. The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released immediately. But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are marked as garbages. collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release "dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if there are no unused slots. Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions